“Ender’s Game” Rights Bought By The Twilight Folks

Summit Entertainment (the people you can firebomb thank for the Twilight movies) has acquired the rights to Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (who will be one of the producers, so at least there’s that). The screenplay adaptation and directing will be handled by Gavin Hood, who was previously responsible for Tsotsi and for a movie that totally never happened called “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” but that movie never ever existed anyway la la la I can’t hear you. Summit appears to be looking for another kid-centered series since they’ve milked Twilight for all the abstinence parables and tanned abs they can.

The book was about gifted children being trained as military strategists on a future Earth where we are at war with an insectoid alien race. I don’t know why I’m bothering to mention the book since Hollywood is probably going to change it into something unrecognizable. As a Deadline commenter astutely points out:

Listen to the afterward portion of Enders Shadow. The author talks about the movie. He is adament about the movie being true to the book 100%. Which is why it has tken so long for the movie to be in created. everytime he was about to make a deal, he would find wording in the contract that would circumvent what he wanted the movie to be. Causing him to end his dealings with that particular movie producer.

Mojavegreen is right. Orson Scott Card would not sell out and sign the movie deal if he was not confident that the movie makers would screw it up. He mentioned there were many abhorrent attempts to make Ender’s Game into a teenage love story. But he was adamant that the actors must be children, or at least, look like children.

Have a little faith everyone, and trust that with OSC, this will be an amazing film.